Queerness needs to be urgently centered and made visible as we listen and learn from the body of Christ. Read More
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Yesterday, Bondings 2.0 featured excerpts from Daniel Walden's essay in Commonweal earlier this year about gender and Catholic theology, specifically as it relates to transgender people. Today's post details a response from Commonweal contributor Paul Griffiths, as well as Walden's further response. Read More
https://i2.wp.com/www.newwaysministry.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/transgender-flag.jpg?fit=790%2C530&ssl=1530790Robert Shine, Managing Editorhttps://www.newwaysministry.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/logo_nwm-1.pngRobert Shine, Managing Editor2021-09-07 01:00:492021-09-01 15:25:34Part II: Paul Griffiths Rejects Transgender-Positive Approach of Daniel Walden
Earlier this year, two cisgender men had an exchange in Commonweal about issues of gender in the church, specifically the experiences of transgender people. Today and tomorrow's posts on Bondings 2.0 offer some of the main ideas proposed. Read More
https://i2.wp.com/www.newwaysministry.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/transgender-flag.jpg?fit=790%2C530&ssl=1530790Robert Shine, Managing Editorhttps://www.newwaysministry.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/logo_nwm-1.pngRobert Shine, Managing Editor2021-09-06 01:00:072021-09-01 15:23:33Part I: Writer Daniel Walden Proposes Narrative Approach to Transgender Issues in Church
Bishops in Minnesota have adopted anti-transgender policies for Catholic schools in their dioceses that will continue to marginalize and harm the well-being of transgender students. Read More
Catholic bishops have an authority crisis that seemingly intensifies daily as more LGBTQ church workers are fired and new cover ups of clergy sexual abuse are revealed. One Catholic leader has a suggestion for them: stop preaching about sexuality and gender for a year. Read More
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The U.S. bishops have provisionally affirmed opposition to transgender rights and the continuation of their religious liberty campaign as key parts of their strategic priorities for 2021-2024. Read More
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The Catholic Church must treat LGBT people as a reality and develop a theology of sex and gender that reflects that reality, wrote a theologian at Fordham University. Read More
https://i2.wp.com/www.newwaysministry.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Ford.jpg?fit=4928%2C3264&ssl=132644928Robert Shine, Managing Editorhttps://www.newwaysministry.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/logo_nwm-1.pngRobert Shine, Managing Editor2019-01-05 01:00:152019-01-04 14:44:53Church Teaching on Sexuality and Gender Must Reflect LGBT People’s Realities, Says Theologian
Detailed reports from the language-based working groups at the Synod on Youth were released yesterday. Most of the 14 groups at least touched on questions of sexuality, but none really engaged LGBT issues specifically. Read More
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A French bishop participating at the Synod on Youth has called on the church to not be afraid of sexuality, but to instead begin an honest conversation about it and engage LGBT youth and their allies with a new pastoral model. Read More
https://i1.wp.com/www.newwaysministry.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Synod-Default.png?fit=1080%2C1080&ssl=110801080Robert Shine, Managing Editorhttps://www.newwaysministry.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/logo_nwm-1.pngRobert Shine, Managing Editor2018-10-09 01:00:262018-10-08 16:23:04At Synod on Youth, French Bishop Says, “We mustn’t be afraid of sexuality!”
Pope Francis’s theology of sex and gender complementarity has hardened into an ideology that uses a single strand strand of reflection about God to powerfully determine Catholic sacrament, canon law, and ethics. Read More
https://i2.wp.com/www.newwaysministry.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/heart-puzzle.png?fit=200%2C200&ssl=1200200Cristina Trainahttps://www.newwaysministry.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/logo_nwm-1.pngCristina Traina2018-09-28 01:00:542018-09-26 12:13:10Theology or Ideology? Parsing Vatican Thinking on Sex and Sexuality
